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The vehicle will target net returns of 15% over its 12-year life with agriculture to account for up to 20% of investments.
The Los Angeles-based cannabis investor has launched its second fund shortly after closing its first vehicle below its original $100m target.
Two Dutch government-linked entities have collaborated to provide a $4m loan supporting efforts of smallholder farmers in northern Nigeria to boost yields and adapt to climate change.
The Rise Fund's Joy Basu talks about the sourcing relationship between the fund and the wider TPG platform and where agriculture fits within the fund’s broader impact focus.
The open-ended farmland investing vehicle has raised $649.7m since launching in 2006.
South Dakota-based Novita Nutrition has begun commercial level production of NovaMeal and NovaOil, its animal nutrition products derived from a corn ethanol-production byproduct.
The $30bn pension has committed $75m to a food-focused fund managed by KKR spin-out Butterfly Equity.
The UN organizations will devote $8.7m to creating plans to help strengthen rural communities and agricultural competitiveness in the country.
Private equity can respond to consumer demand by helping encourage adoption of new technologies and conversion of conventional farmland to organic production, according to Rabobank.
Investors in the Kansas-based commodity trading and transportation company include Chinese private equity firm New Hope Group and Australian real assets giant Macquarie.